{"product_id":"the-devils-treasure-hardcover","title":"The Devil's Treasure - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Gaitskill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is in the bag behind the Devil's chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone. I've been criticized-- and sometimes admired--for what some readers see as my affinity with cruelty, both in my depictions of it and my supposed infliction of it on characters.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e--aptly subtitled \u003ci\u003eA Book of Stories and Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e--the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art that transcends categorization. This collage of four novels (one a work in progress), interspersed with and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author's commentary, is a kind of director's cut revealing the personal and societal forces that inform each individual piece of work, an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience, the ideally, sometimes quixotically high and grossly, confusedly low. With the stylistic daring and preternatural acuity that has made her one of America's most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life that simultaneously blends the huge prehistoric creatures that swim at the bottom of our collective ocean with a family that picnics on the beach while a podcast natters about politics and a perhaps dangerously curious child explores the lapping waves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Gaitskill is the author of \u003ci\u003eBad Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Girls, Fat and Thin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBecause They Wanted To\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVeronica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDon't Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomebody with a Little Hammer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis Is Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 237\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.98 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47250607603961,"sku":"9781733540155","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VUh4T0VGTHpsVTcyQ1NQRWx0U05mQT09.webp?v=1768664340","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-devils-treasure-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}